The Portland daily press., 1887-10-27
4 DAY OF ADDRESSES.
Many Men Speak ElOquentIy on Mis-.
SiOnary WOrk.
DR.. Strieby on the PerilS from Caste
PrejudiceS in the South.
Congressman Dingley on the Dangers
Of Inregulated Immigration.
An English DiVine'S Thoughts on
American Social Problems.
lRtereeSSiOn for the chinese by Yam
I PhOa Lee.
Eloquent Sermon by President Hyde
Of BOWdOiu College.

The morning meeting for prayer beginning
the second day Of the American Missionary
Association meeting was led by Rev Dr.Jos.
Anderson Of Waterbury, Conn. The theme
of remark was the "Holy Spirit !" and Seere-
tary Woodwork, President Blanchard, Rev.
Messrs. Hawes, Mead, Howard and Thwing
in the meeting. 1t closed with
the hymn,
'Jesus Shall Reign"
The business meeting opened with sing
ing the hymn,
"Hail to the Lords Anointed."
Rev. Z. T. Bayley leading, and W. G. Kim
ball. Of Williston church presiding at the or
gan. Rev. DIR. Mckenzie, who presided,
called upon Rev. Mr.. Loring of Winthrop
to offer prayer.
The records of the previous meeting were
read.
The nominating committee reported in
part
DIR. Mckenzie remarked that, as they re-
called Edward Payson at the beginning of
these services in this Memorial Church. So
we should not forget that man Of noble pres
ence, large heart and magnifcene life, DIR.
Carruthers, for long years pastor of Payson's
people and their children, now confined by
the inhrmities OF age, but present with us
in sympathy with this work.
Committee on Educational Work-Rey. Messrs
VIM. +. Slocum, Elbridge Mix, ID. D., Oliver s.
Deane, Forest +. Emerson, Omar w Folsom. Geo.
Il; scott & Cnas: Heath, Esq, W. A. C,athwait.
Dr. A. ii. Quint, George w. Phelps. ID. d., George
w. Grover, Charles G. MeIntire, Henry NJ. Grant,
Henry j. Patrick, Rev John A. MaeCdlI
Committee on Indian Work Frank Wood
Rev. Messrs. Elijah Howe, DID,, George A
Tewksbury, Frank A. Warheld, Galen o. Moses,
Committee on Chinese Work~kev. Messrs. $.
Lewis B. opeare, Henry l.. Grnn, George l..
Dickerman, Charles II; Pope, Charles r. Mills,
Committee on Church WOrk-ReV. Messrs Cy-
rus Richardson, Joseph +. Lowering. MahlOn Van
Horne; George g stanton, Arthur f.skeele, sam
Committee ON Finance-Chares T. Hull ESQ,
Rey Z MessTs 81 3; smith n Baker, Edward 5. Atwood
Augustus Gaylord, Esq.
Papers by secretaries were presented, and
Bev, A. +. Beard, ID. D., assistant cores
ponding secretary, read the following adj
entitled "a Life OF Missionary In
tluence and the Missionary Influence Of a
Life"
Or. Boards Paper.
In the missionary influence Of Life it is my
purpose to trace the life Of missionary Influence
This special life is selected as a significant illus
tratlon Of certain specific features and forms of
the missionary work which we are called here to
consider
II was a remote and inconspcuous conservation
TO certain radical Ideas OF human brotherhood.
and to new and not popular methods of saving
people who are low down In life by variations
from the then accepted ideas.
As study OF sympathy with people in low con
dtiOns, Of faith In the possibilities Of those who
have been degraded, Of the application Of Christ
anity to the pIejudees OF caste, of fidelity In wit
Messing to profound convictions OF prophetic in
sight as 10 the trends OF Gods provldenees OF
heroic selfdenialS among the oppressed and IT,
lOrant, together with the continuity and eumuia.
i've power Of these far reaching Influences this
nay stand for concrete exhibition Of the kind Of
work which we here are trying TO do, and possibly
may bring some new hope and courage 10 our
selves and some fresh sympathy To our devoted
Christian workers who, removed from the worlds
observation and sometimes from due Christian
are eonsecrating their lives to the
same uses
In the time when George III. was King Of Eng
land and our great-grandfathers were Opposing
the Stamp Acts, there lived In house which stin
stands in Strasb0urg, In Asatia, wise father
and mother Of remarkable endOwments who
trained their son IN hahits III conscisnta,,S' WI"
omy, sefreliance, to the sense Of responsibility 10
God aud 10 man. and Of the obi cations which
possession has towards human necessities, and 10
habituai beneyolence.
Led on through youth TO aspire to a learned pro
fesslOn, at the age Of fifteen years he signed his
name John Frederick Oberlin, as a student Of
the University Of StrasbOurg. Three years later
he was Bachelor OF Arts, and i've years later a
Doctor In Philosophy. Ordained as minister
were held sacred To the conviction that large use
fulsesS means large preparedness; so that he WIS
still In his study at the age Of twenysevrn years
when a missionary who had been trying 10 save
needy souls in the mountains OF the VOsges, min
istcring to the spiritual necessities OF a people
passed by in the movements of a worlds lie ana
remote from civilization. came into Oberlin's room
and urged him TO take up this service.
He confessed his own lack OF success, and that
he had made no impression upon them He told
Oberln of the people, descendants of the Hugue-
nOts, who had fed from fiery prosecutions In France
to this wild and sterile mountain country. AS the
years had gone on for more than seven generations
VI men, their teachers had died, their preachers
had died, until they, exiled and outeast, had de-
cned into heathenish Ignorance. He had found
as distant memory OF what once had been, sin
gle school in a mountain hamlet. Ii was In a mis-
erable howell In one corner of which lay helpless
old man on "a rude truckle-bed, surrounded BY
crowd of ragged, noisy. Wild looking children He
asked: "Are You the schOolmaster ?" Yes"
" What do you teach the ehildren?" Nothing"
" You teach them nothing, how Is that?" Because
l know nothing" "why then are you the school.
master?, 'Well, sir, was taking care OF the
Waldbach pigs, but the people thought me to Old
Tor that and 50 was appointed to take care OF the
children. ,
The missionary did not conceal the facts Of the
ease, that the people living In these remote and
solitary places were not only frightfully Ignorant
but were rebellious against Improvement. Tie
region had six months Of winter, with bitter icy
winds sweeping over the mountains. There was
not single practicable road In the entire district
Deep mud holes were before the cabin doors and
the huts In which the people were sheltered. In
the short summer season they gathered enough
food to sustain an impoverished life through the
winter, In which winter they often herded for
warmth IN the stables with their cattle. so far
bad they sunk into material and moral desolation
To such ministry was invited this Young man
Of large ambitions and large reasons for them: 10
minister to this wretehedness, to go TO people
al fHaf aana Nxffk nrrf
as lratiOns, without appreciation OF the services
70 be done for them. One prepared for the Pro-
feSSOrs chair In the great University where IL was
pleasant to live was Invited TO bury himself among
those who would noe give him even the reward VI
gratitude.
IL was not a pleasant call The words Of il
struck the young mans heart like the blows Of a
hammer. But seven years before, he had written
IN his own hand his conservation 10 God, that with
all sincerity OF heart and I'm fidelity which should
not sleep he would walk In the ways OF Christ as
God should reveal them 10 him.
And now what had this ardent student, with spen-
d talents aud high education, rich In special stud
les who had In mind great sphere OF usefulness,
y do with this call but 10 take Il 10 Him 20 whom
be had once for all cOnsecrated himself with All
sincerity OF heart''2 In that little room' Obertn
On bended knee, lifted up his voice and prayed
Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth," aud in
agony he listened for the still, small voice. He
could not wish to 20, but he could not refuse 10
hear. And great battle went on in his soul
= There have been many battles la Srasbourg
there; the tri eOlurs OF France have
way- 4 In the glory OF victory there, but never a
greater cOufct perhaps or a more glorious con-
luerlng than THIS between faith and sight the a.
sues Of which God and the centuries were tw M
ng-a great soul meeting the questions Of mis-
world anu the questions OF eternity. When he
arose from bis prayer, he said; IL will gor
CONVICTION was action. Soon amO z them. hls
quick eye perceived that preaching 10 Them In
neir condition would fall far short Of their needs
le must save Souls, but he must also save men
and women. And here developed Ms missioturi nv
aea; yea; ~ was not new, for Christ taught n ana
lEel M ~ put Y was new, for Christians had for
SoeIen y; Shrlst was divinity IN humanity. and
ne must save their souls, but their souls are IN
y lher s bodies SO he would not deal with them as
y = shSy i were alsembodied spirits but seeing them
would teach them how 10 meet their physical des-
lltu Ions and their mental desttuIions. and would
HuaN NyatI .ff..s.